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Rich Murphy
Rich Murphy is director of writing
programs at Emmanuel College where he teaches writing and
literature. His poems have appeared in numerous national periodicals
and recent issues of Memorious, Entelechy: Mind and Culture,
Poems
Niederngasse (featured
poet), Inertia Magazine, and King Log. Poems will also
be published in upcoming issues of New Delta Review, Vermont
Literary Review, Red China, Talking River Review, Confrontation
Magazine, and Chaminade Review. His Essay “Vanishing
Artist” will be published in the next issue of Fulcrum and
later in the International Journal of the Humanities.
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Circus Act
When we have aped the orchard,
gathered the stars from its apex,
suffered its horizontal timbers,
our bellies are full of waking:
We are Buddhas in the shade
of the door we have yet to enter.
Our wanting to own pyramids,
we witness as a rain.
The world we know may collide
with the edge that grinds our lenses
until slowly they recognize
a solipsistic planet rolling in the idea
of chaos: a clearer day than today.
But we have adjusted our grip
from the empty banana skins
to the louse beneath the fur
and to the rock under our feet. And
at our right and left a wash-out marks
the dawn when our organs are seals’ noses
and we dream of two caged lovebirds
in a car that winds into the wilderness.
Poems © Rich Murphy 2004. All
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